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Silver 50g King GEORGE+Queen OLGA Denmark Russia 🅰️ Greece 1863-1913 🅰️ GRECE

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  • Composition: Silver
  • Year: 2021
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    Description

    45mm
    50 grams
    Fine Silver 999/1000
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    George I
    Posthumous portrait by
    Georgios Jakobides
    , 1914
    King of the Hellenes
    Reign
    30 March 1863 – 18 March 1913
    [1]
    Predecessor
    Otto I
    Successor
    Constantine I
    Prime Ministers
    See list
    Born
    Prince William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
    24 December 1845
    Copenhagen
    , Denmark
    Died
    18 March 1913 (aged 67)
    [1]
    Thessaloniki
    [2]
    Burial
    Royal Cemetery,
    Tatoi Palace
    ,
    Greece
    Spouse
    Olga Constantinovna of Russia


    (
    m.
    1867
    )

    Issue
    Constantine I of Greece
    Prince George
    Princess Alexandra
    Prince Nicholas
    Princess Maria
    Princess Olga
    Prince Andrew
    Prince Christopher
    House
    Glücksburg
    Father
    Christian IX of Denmark
    Mother
    Louise of Hesse-Kassel
    Signature
    George I
    (
    Greek
    : Γεώργιος Α΄,
    Geórgios I
    ; 24 December 1845 – 18 March 1913) was
    King of Greece
    from 30 March 1863 until his assassination in 1913.
    Originally a Danish prince, he was born in
    Copenhagen
    , and seemed destined for a career in the
    Royal Danish Navy
    . He was only 17 years old when he was elected king by the
    Greek National Assembly
    , which had deposed the unpopular
    Otto
    . His nomination was both suggested and supported by the
    Great Powers
    : the
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
    , the
    Second French Empire
    and the
    Russian Empire
    . He married Grand Duchess
    Olga Constantinovna of Russia
    in 1867, and became the first monarch of a
    new Greek dynasty
    . Two of his sisters,
    Alexandra
    and
    Dagmar
    , married into the British and Russian royal families.
    Edward VII of the United Kingdom
    and
    Alexander III of Russia
    were his brothers-in-law, and
    George V
    ,
    Nicholas II
    ,
    Christian X of Denmark
    and
    Haakon VII of Norway
    were his nephews.
    George's reign of almost 50 years (the longest in
    modern Greek history
    ) was characterized by territorial gains as
    Greece
    established its place in pre-
    World War I
    Europe. Britain ceded the
    Ionian Islands
    peacefully in 1864, while
    Thessaly
    was annexed from the
    Ottoman Empire
    after the
    Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
    . Greece was not always successful in its territorial ambitions; it was defeated in the
    Greco-Turkish War (1897)
    . During the
    First Balkan War
    , after Greek troops had captured much of
    Greek Macedonia
    , George was assassinated in
    Thessaloniki
    . Compared with his own long tenure, the reigns of his successors
    Constantine I
    ,
    Alexander
    , and
    George II
    , proved short and insecure.
    Olga Constantinovna of Russia
    Queen consort of the Hellenes
    Tenure
    27 October 1867 – 18 March 1913
    Regent of Greece
    Tenure
    17 November 1920 – 19 December 1920
    Born
    Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia
    3 September 1851
    Pavlovsk
    ,
    Russian Empire
    Died
    18 June 1926 (aged 74)
    Rome
    ,
    Italy
    or
    Pau, France
    Burial
    17 November 1936
    Royal Cemetery,
    Tatoi Palace
    , Greece
    Spouse
    George I of Greece


    (
    m.
    1867
    ; died
    1913
    )

    Issue
    Constantine I of Greece
    Prince George
    Princess Alexandra
    Prince Nicholas
    Princess Maria
    Princess Olga
    Prince Andrew
    Prince Christopher
    House
    Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
    Father
    Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich of Russia
    Mother
    Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
    Religion
    Eastern Orthodox
    Signature
    Olga Constantinovna of Russia
    (
    Greek
    :
    Όλγα
    ; 3 September [
    O.S.
    22 August] 1851 – 18 June 1926) was
    Queen of the Hellenes
    as the wife of
    King George I
    . She was briefly the
    regent
    of Greece in 1920.
    A member of the
    Romanov dynasty
    , she was the daughter of
    Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaievich
    and his wife,
    Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg
    . She spent her childhood in
    Saint Petersburg
    , Poland and the
    Crimea
    , and married King George I of Greece in 1867 at the age of sixteen. At first, she felt ill at ease in the
    Kingdom of Greece
    , but she quickly became involved in social and charitable work. She founded hospitals and schools, but her attempt to promote a new, more accessible, Greek translation of the Gospels sparked
    riots by religious conservatives
    .
    On the assassination of her husband in 1913, Olga returned to Russia. When the
    First World War
    broke out, she set up a
    military hospital
    in
    Pavlovsk Palace
    , which belonged to her brother. She was trapped in the palace after the
    Russian Revolution
    of 1917, until the Danish embassy intervened, allowing her to escape to Switzerland. Olga could not return to Greece as her son,
    King Constantine I
    , had been deposed.
    In October 1920, she returned to Athens on the fatal illness of her grandson,
    King Alexander
    . After his death, she was appointed regent until the restoration of Constantine I the following month. After the defeat of the Greeks in the
    Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22
    the
    Greek royal family
    were again exiled and Olga spent the last years of her life in the United Kingdom, France and Italy.
    George first met
    Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia
    in 1863, when she was 12 years old, on a visit to the court of
    Tsar Alexander II
    between his election to the Greek throne and his arrival in Athens. They met for a second time in April 1867, when George went to the
    Russian Empire
    to visit his sister
    Dagmar
    , who had married into the Russian imperial family. While George was privately a
    Lutheran
    ,
    [31]
    the
    Romanovs
    were
    Orthodox Christians
    like the majority of Greeks, and George thought a marriage with a Russian grand duchess would re-assure his subjects on the question of his future children's religion.
    [32]
    Olga was just 16 years old when she married George at the
    Winter Palace
    in
    Saint Petersburg
    on 27 October 1867. After a honeymoon at
    Tsarskoye Selo
    , the couple left Russia for Greece on 9 November.
    [33]
    Over the next twenty years, they had eight children:
    Constantine
    (1868–1923), who married Princess
    Sophia of Prussia
    ;
    George
    (1869–1957), who married
    Princess Marie Bonaparte
    ;
    Alexandra
    (1870–1891), who married
    Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia
    ;
    Nicholas
    (1872–1938), who married
    Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia
    ;
    Maria
    (1876–1940), who married firstly
    Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia
    and secondly
    Admiral Perikles Ioannidis
    ;
    Olga (1880), who died aged seven months;
    Andrew
    (1882–1944), who married
    Princess Alice of Battenberg
    ;
    Christopher
    (1888–1940), who married firstly American widow
    Nancy Stewart Worthington Leeds
    and secondly
    Princess Françoise of Orléans
    .